Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of Transparency

Index

Index add-ons, 80 advance directives, 154 advertising, 109, 122n, 129, 135n14, 150n1 direct-to-consumer, 17, 110, 122, 124, 145, 153 and FDA, 122 and gender, 119 news as a form of, 122–123 product placement, 17, 122 scientific exhibits, 122–123 stealth, 153 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 138, 157 Allen, Barbara, 74, 101n12 Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, 133, 135–136, 135n14 American College of Radiology, 37, 42, 117–118n6 American Medical Association, 171 American Registry of Radiologic Technologists, 78, 78n1, 104n10, 106n12 American Society of Radiologic Technologists, 91, 99, 106n12, 171 AMPERE, 33, 33n2 ancillary merchandise, 115 Angell, Marcia, 17, 153 Angelou, Maya, 135n14 animals, 4–5, 27, 56, 59, 158 artifacts in MRI scans, 40n4, 62–67, 146 Asian-Americans, 171 “Ask” posters, 117–118n6 assembly line and dehumanization, 108 and Henry Ford, 80, 82 language, 82, 89 and patients, 20, 80–82, 128, 155 and repetition, 77–79, 86 resistance to, 21, 78, 90–94, 101 and safety, 102 Association of American Medical Colleges, 117 attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, 13, 134n11, 135 authoritative knowledge construction of, 47, 49, 61, 70, 74–76, 135n14 effects of, 20, 74, 143, 157, 164 types of, 11, 75 See also corporeal transparency; myth of photographic truth Axel, Leon, 42 Barley, Stephen, 94n4, 170 Beaulieu, Anne, 8, 17, 32, 59, 154 Bell, Robert, 111, 111f, 116 Berg, Marc, 11, 57n6, 140 Berger, John, 10, 51n2, 52, 122, 150n1, 151 Bijker, Wiebe, 6, 14, 41 Biomedical TechnoService Complex, Inc., 110 black box, 48, 48n1 bleeding artifacts, 40n4 Blume, Stuart, 9, 27, 35n3, 37, 43, 130 body scans, 145–146 camera obscura, 7, 7f Canada, 22, 126n8 cancer, 54, 56, 72, 90, 132–133, 146 anxiety about, 21, 160–162 breast cancer, 136–137, 106n12, 158 and dogs, 158 and MRI development, 28, 30–31, 34 See also mammography; National Institute of Cancer cardiac catheterization, 163 Cartwright, Lisa, 7–8, 11, 17, 43, 154, 164 See also myth of photographic truth Casper, Monica, 15, 151 Center for Devices and Radiological Health, 138 Certificate of Need regulations, 130–131, 147 chemistry, 27, 28f, 30, 35–37, 44 citizen-situated science, 101n12 Clarke, Adele 7, 9, 43, 59n7, 154, 164 on privatization of medicine, 110, 111n2, 125 See also co-production; “right tool for the job” closed MRI machines, 11, 13f, 13, 83–85 clinical examination definition of, 68n12, 159 devaluation of, 54–55, 87 importance of, 6, 55n4, 64, 68–70, 127 clinical gaze, 8 Collins, Harry, 61, 61n10 computed tomography, 73, 86, 120, 130, 136 body scans, 145–146 compared with MRI, 50, 52, 54, 56, 110, 141, 143 exam appearance, 14, 39–41, 45 and health outcomes, 5n3 history of, 9, 32, 38, 43 and numerical measurements, 11, 39 and technologists, 94n4, 106 Conrad, Peter, 125 contrast agents, 115–116, 115n5, 117, 121 co-production, 50, 109, 109n1, 147, 154 corporeal transparency, 49–50 “cover your ass” medicine, 16, 143–144 Cowan, Ruth Swartz, 6, 14 Crooks, Larry, 18, 36, 39–41, 40n4, 167–168 cross talk, 64–65 CT. See computed tomography cultural capital, 99 culture and views of cancer, 21, 28, 31, 160–162 definition of, 15, 151 and health care professionals, 15, 58–59, 76, 172 and MRI use, 21, 109, 148, 153, 157 as multiple and divergent, 19, 22, 44, 57, 59, 143 and perceptions of nuclear technologies, 28, 41–42, 45 and science, 10, 15, 59n7, 148, 154, 172 “culturing the fetus,” 151 Damadian, Raymond, 18, 27, 29f, 30f, 40, 44, 167 interest in cancer, 28, 30–31, 34 on MRI numerical output, 31, 35 Daston, Lorraine, 52, 151 Decade of the Brain, 133–136, 134n11 defensive medicine, 16, 109, 142–144, 147, 153 deregulation, 130–131, 131n9, 131n10, 147 Diamond, Timothy, 91–92 diffractions, 19 Disney, 2, 54–55, 123 DNR codes, 154 docile patients, 82–83 See also Foucault, Michel Doctor of Osteopathy (DO), 64, 86 Dumit, Joseph, 9n4, 11, 52, 76n17, 134n12, 163 on research laboratories, 8, 17, 154 Durkheim, Emile, 149 efficiency concern about, 170 194 INDEX definitions of, 71, 77, 79, 89, 90, 101 and unit design, 82 emotional labor, 86, 90–93 Epcot, 2, 54–55, 123 etching, 70, 70n13, 76 ethnography, 4, 15, 18–20, 62, 169 ethnomethodology, 62 European Magnetic Resonance Forum, 111n2, 114–115 evidence changing definitions of, 11, 141, 172 and clinical trials, 11...